This guide was created for Professor Monk-Payton and the students enrolled in FITV 3648 - Television, Race, and Civil Rights. It contains links to recommended books, databases, and archives. Start your research by downloading the pdf handout. To schedule a consultation with your course librarian, email jsuda@fordham.edu. Use the Ask a Librarian chat service for 24/7 research assistance.
What about Google?
There may be good resources available via the free web, but it is your responsibility to look critically at the sources you choose. If you cannot write a citation for a source, then you may not want to choose it for your paper. You should be prepared to defend the authority, accuracy, timeliness, and appropriate context of the sources you choose. The Evaluating Websites handout is provided to help you assess the sources you select.
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PROQUEST BLACK STUDIES (ENDS 4/23/22)
This is a TRIAL database and is only available until 4/23/2022. Primary and secondary sources, including historical Black newspapers, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, writings by major Black intellectuals and leaders, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars. Includes timelines, topic pages on notable people, ten historical newspapers and over 120 archival collections and 160 full text periodicals. These collections will cover the period from the colonial era through to the 21st Century. Alongside the NAACP Papers are records of three civil rights organizations: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and other records of importance.
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